Black in British Colony

Introduction

By the term usually refers to black people whose tone of skin is darker than others, called by opposition "white." Although the name, of a person as "black" varies from culture to culture, it often associated with people living in the sub-Saharan Africa, also known as “Black Africa ". For its part, the existence of a black population in America, known as " African "is caused by the seizure of millions of Africans and their forced removal to America to work as a slave, by European colonial powers between the ages 16th and 18th Centuries.

Discussion

Discuss the development and changes in status for blacks in the British colonies from 1619 through the mid-eighteenth century. Why did these changes happen?

Black slaves in early twentieth century. Current historiography agrees to banish the image of the black person as a slave at all times in history. The enslavement of black people has precise steps that must be differentiated from different historical moments. In the modern era, Europe encourages the slave trade in Africa. From the fifteenth century, the trend begins to grow to enslave black people, reaching its peak from the eighteenth century. It estimated that at least 30 million Africans brought as slaves to America in modern and contemporary, and perhaps it were 14 million through the Indian Ocean. At least a total of 80 million victims is attributable to modern and contemporary slave trade, due to deaths in wars and slave caravans and ships (Combs, 23).

The slave system imposed gradually throughout a distorted image of black people whose aim was to perpetuate slavery. The classification of human groups 'higher' and 'lower' was the beginning of racism evolutionary, with theories like Gobineau or own Darwin. Blacks placed at the bottom of the scale. However, in all ages, famous black people faced prejudice and excelled in all areas, disproving the myths about their supposed inferiority.

In the early modern era the abolition of slavery, especially after the feat in 1804 of people enslaved in Haiti, marks a new era for blacks in America. While starts shortly after the colonial invasion of Africa by Europeans and the exploitation of raw materials through forced labor. 20 years of the twentieth century represent a boom in European and American art and black literature, and crystallization of a new musical form in America itself, the Jazz.

From the 50 century, black leaders, fighters for civil rights and labor, have presence in the political order in North America and in Africa, and from the next decade, thanks to African independence, the black people acquire a weight in the global geostrategy. Currently, due to colonial legacies and position of suppliers of raw materials in the world economic order, both in Africa and parts of Latin America, the black population are facing serious challenges: poverty, poor nutrition and health and crisis, socio-political.

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